Harley Pasternak: Can You Lose Weight Eating Fast Food?

Harley Pasternak is a celebrity trainer and nutrition expert who has worked with stars from Halle Berry and Lady Gaga to Robert Pattinson and Robert Downey Jr. He’s also a New York Times best-selling author, with titles including The Body Reset Diet and The 5-Factor Diet. Tweet him @harleypasternak.
In the 2004 documentary Super Size Me, filmmaker Morgan Spurlock ate only McDonald’s for a whole month. As you can imagine, he got sick and fat. So when I saw a headline this week reading, “Science teacher gets surprising results from McDonald’s diet,” I was intrigued.

Reportedly, Iowa high school science teacher John Cisna lost almost 40 pounds after consuming only McDonald’s food for 90 days! That’s better results than most people get on popular diets including Atkins, Wheat Belly, or any other cleanse/fast/form of torture people choose to follow this time of year. Also, he reports that his cholesterol dropped from 249 to 170.

Cisna was quick to mention that he didn’t do it eating only salads, either. “I had the Big Macs, the quarter pounders with cheese. I had sundaes, I had ice cream cones,” he told the local news station. He wanted to show that you don’t have to eat a perfect diet—losing weight is about balancing out poor choices with good ones. His good choices: No matter what he ate, he didn’t exceed 2,000 calories a day, and he walked 45 minutes daily.

While I don’t think it’s a great idea to eat too much fast food (and I want to point out that Cisna was not restricting his calories or exercising before this experiment), I do think he is right. Fast food, while far from healthy, doesn’t make people gain weight. Eating too muchfast food too oftenis what can make you gain weight—the same way eating too much of anything can pack on the pounds.

Below is an example of what 2,000 calories from McDonald’s, Subway and Wendy’s looks like. I’m not suggesting you start following a fast food diet, but it’s an interesting illustration that how much we eat is as important as what we eat!

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Vivian Bergh on February 17th, 2014

Wow! That is amazing and also makes a great point about balancing good and bad choices with your eating and lifestyle habits. Have you heard about maqui berry? I just read about it http://wellnesspulse.com/maqui-berry-for-weight-loss and apparently it’s great for weight loss so in case you didn’t make the right balancing diet choices, this is a natural thing to help keep the pounds of too. I’m thinking of trying something like this before I try a McDonald’s diet and have to limit my french fry intake. It’s easier to not even tempt myself with it than to just have a few bites anyway.